The leader of an Australian neo-Nazi group was filmed attacking a Channel Nine security guard just hours before the network’s Current Affair broadcast a segment about the organization.
Thomas Sewell, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi group Rede Nacional Socialista, was filmed assaulting the guard on Monday afternoon after he and another man went to the network’s offices in Melbourne before their current tabloid affairs program ran a segment on the group.
Footage of the attack, posted online and viewed by Guardian Australia, shows the security guard leading Sewell and the other man, who is holding a camera, out of the building.
The second man uses racial slander against the security guard, who is black. He seems to put his hand on the camera. The video then shows Sewell striking the guard several times as the guard falls to the ground.
Victoria police confirmed that police were called to an address in Melbourne’s Docklands “after reports that a man was beaten”.
“The victim is believed to have been approached and assaulted by an unknown man in a Bourke Street business around 5 pm,” said a Victoria police spokesman on Monday night.
“The attacker, along with another man, fled the scene and remained pending.
“The victim was transported to the hospital with injuries. The police are investigating the incident and are asking everyone who witnessed it to report. ”
Sewell is an outspoken neo-Nazi who has long been linked to the Australian extreme right.